Movie: The Spellbinder

Top 10 Billed Cast

Lee Tracy
Lee Tracy

Jed Marlowe

Barbara Read
Barbara Read

Janet Marlowe

Patric Knowles
Patric Knowles

Tom Dixon

Allan Lane
Allan Lane

Steve Kendall

Linda Hayes
Linda Hayes

Miss Simpson

Morgan Conway
Morgan Conway

Mr. Carrington

Robert Emmett Keane
Robert Emmett Keane

Judge Butler, Second Trial

Roy Gordon
Roy Gordon

Third Trial Judge

Robert Strange
Robert Strange

First Trial Judge

Elliott Sullivan
Elliott Sullivan

Harry 'Ice Box' Swinnerty

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    Jed Marlowe is a brilliant, scheming, unscrupulous criminal lawyer whose specialty is defending criminal he knows is guilty but gets them off through loop-holes or bribery. Then his daughter, misled by her father’s courtroom performance, but unaware of his back-room tactics, marries the killer her father has just unjustly save from the electric chair. What’s a poor father to do?

  • Release Date

    1939-07-28

  • Average

    6

  • Rating:

    3.0 starts
  • Tagline

    Trapped - Between the Daughter he Loved and the Law He Defied!

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  • Languages:

    English
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